Mapuches Still Resisting In Chile

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In a march commemorating the ninth anniversary of the murder of indigenous Mapuche activist Matias Catrileo, shot in the back by police, protesters stormed the financial district of Santiago, Chile. They demanded charges against Mapuche spiritual leader or ‘Machi” Francisca Linconao be dropped. She is charged in an arson attack that killed two wealthy land owners in ancestral Mapuche lands. After a 14 day hunger strike ‘to freedom or death,’ she was released on house arrest the same day as the march and ended her hunger strike. Protesters denounced ongoing police violence against indigenous peoples in Chile. Decrying cases like that of Brandon Hernández Huentecol, 17, who was shot in the back police last month. Huentecol has had 12 operations and remains in critical condition. His family denounced police efforts to buy their silence.

In Chile, students have sustained a mass movement protesting for public colleges and universities to be made tuition free for more than a decade. At the most recent march, on April 21, some students again battled police tear gas and water canons with rocks and Molotov cocktails.

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Year 2015 Length 2.5 MINS

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